{"id":35876,"date":"2015-06-19T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=35876"},"modified":"2021-08-16T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T01:49:08","slug":"third-hi-seas-mission-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/19\/third-hi-seas-mission-accomplished\/","title":{"rendered":"Third <abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr> mission accomplished"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P3EAep0a-is\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, June 13, looking pale but smiling broadly, the six crew members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/hi-seas.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Exploration Analog and Simulation<\/a> or <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> mission emerged from the dome on the slopes of Mauna Loa where they had been isolated for eight months.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a>, this third <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>-funded <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> mission was meant to simulate what future Mars explorers might experience during long-duration space exploration&#8212;psychologically, socially and biologically.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A big part of the job is actually socializing with the crew, to be able to stay as a cohesive group and bond, so you have to be prepared for that as well,&rdquo; said <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> crew member Jocelyn Dunn. &ldquo;Despite sort of the isolation, it&#8217;s a very intense social situation that you&#8217;re around people more than certainly I&#8217;ve ever been, and sort of interacting with people all the time takes some getting used to,&rdquo; added fellow crew member Zak Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Under the guidance of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa principal investigator <strong>Kim Binsted<\/strong>, the crew has set the stage for a fourth, year-long mission in August, where new challenges await a new crew. Each mission contributes to groundbreaking research and is an unforgettable experience for all those involved.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It really was, and it&#8217;s an experience I&#8217;ll cherish the rest of my life,&rdquo; said crew member Neil Scheibelhut.<\/p>\n<p>Would they do it all again? Mission commander Martha Lenio said, &ldquo;I&#8217;d definitely do it, for sure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When asked what it felt like to be out of the dome, Wilson added, &ldquo;To feel a little bit of a breeze is something very different.&rdquo; And what better way to feel the breeze than with a tandem parachute dive, which is how the crew celebrated the end of their mission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hi-seas-crew-emerge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hi-seas-crew-emerge.jpg\" alt=\"hi-seas-crew-emerge\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hi-seas-crew-emerge.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hi-seas-crew-emerge-260x195.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six crew members of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> mission emerge from the dome on Mauna Loa after eight months of isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[308,442,484,174,9],"class_list":["post-35876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-college-of-natural-sciences","tag-hi-seas","tag-information-and-computer-science","tag-space","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35876"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146475,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35876\/revisions\/146475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}